Can I Airbnb in Dallas, TX? (2026)

Short-term rentals currently operate legally throughout Dallas — including single-family neighborhoods — because a December 6, 2023 temporary injunction, upheld three times by the Fifth Court of Appeals in 2025 and now pending before the Texas Supreme Court, blocks the city's June 2023 ordinances that would ban STRs from residential zoning districts and require an annual registration (fee $248 under the current codified code, as amended September 2023; $404 as originally adopted). The only citywide STR-specific requirement actively enforced is tax registration: every STR must file a Hotel Occupancy Tax registration with the City Controller's Office (no fee stated) and remit the 9% city hotel occupancy tax monthly, because Airbnb and Vrbo do not collect the city tax (they do collect the 6% state tax). Always confirm current requirements with the city before operating.

What’s required: a City of Dallas Hotel Occupancy Tax (HOT) registration (City Controller's Office; filed via dallas.munirevs.com) is required; occupancy taxes apply.